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SERBIA: NEW INCARNATION OF SOCIALIST PARTY RISES IN PARLIAMENT
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Inter Press Service English News Wire
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May 16, 2008
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Vesna Peric Zimonjic
Inter Press Service English News Wire
05-16-2008
BELGRADE, Serbia, May 15, 2008 (IPS/GIN) -- The Socialist Party
of Serbia has returned into the spotlight as the potential
kingmaker of a new government due to be formed in coming weeks,
despite its reputation as the authoritarian party of former leader
Slobodan Milosevic.
The party used to be known as the communist party, but it was
renamed in the early 1990s. It developed a reputation as being
nationalist and warmongering under Milosevic, who was ousted from
power in October 2000.
Under Milosevic's Socialist Party of Serbia, Serbs saw the
disintegration of former Yugoslavia through wars that took more
than 100,000 lives, ...
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